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he came to america in 1959. >> yes. >> he went to hawaii. you report in a 1965 essay he wrote in which problems facing our socialism and he called himself an african socialist. you describe that essay in the context of debates within kenya. and in hawaii. >> yes. >> when we think of anticolonial. there's different species of anticolonial. there was tom, obama's father's mentor. he was more on the left and then on the far left who was basically pro-soviet and so you've got these species of anticolonialism. talk a little bit about that landscape because i think it's fascinating. people think of anticolonialism as one thing but it's -- it has many different colors. >> it was actually a very exciting time in kenya because they had at long last got their independence in british in 1963. and all the students in american university were all pulling back into nairobi, you know, to get the johnson government and mostly which had been vacated by the british who were going home. and so it was a very exciting time in which the government was trying to f
he came to america in 1959. >> yes. >> he went to hawaii. you report in a 1965 essay he wrote in which problems facing our socialism and he called himself an african socialist. you describe that essay in the context of debates within kenya. and in hawaii. >> yes. >> when we think of anticolonial. there's different species of anticolonial. there was tom, obama's father's mentor. he was more on the left and then on the far left who was basically pro-soviet and so you've...
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they are training america's future leaders, and it's a very dubious proposition, i think. we've got a bunch of great things coming up. our new york times bestseller last year was the grand jihad by andy mccarthy. just out is freedom at risk by james buckley, senator james buckley. we've got a bunch of great, great titles coming out, so stop by our web site, www.encounter.com and see what you're missing. >> one more thing, can you tell us a little bit about why you decided to start the pamphlet series? >> yes. i saw -- in 2008 in that election cycle the internet had become an essential part of the metabolism of political debate and blogs and so on were absolutely essential to the way in which the messages were getting out, the the people were getting educated. but they had a couple of liabilities, i thought. one was that they were very ephemeral. i wrote a blog myself for pa pajamas media, so i know you can get thousands of hits, thousands of comments and then 17 hours later it's gone. they've moved on to the next thing. so i wanted something that had the meet -- immediacy
they are training america's future leaders, and it's a very dubious proposition, i think. we've got a bunch of great things coming up. our new york times bestseller last year was the grand jihad by andy mccarthy. just out is freedom at risk by james buckley, senator james buckley. we've got a bunch of great, great titles coming out, so stop by our web site, www.encounter.com and see what you're missing. >> one more thing, can you tell us a little bit about why you decided to start the...
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and in america where all the major cities in this country was on fire. when african-americans or black people was standing up against the institutionalized hatred demanding equal justice, equal opportunity, equal rights, equal jobs, equal housing and all of those things -- and equal respect, you know, that was -- that was -- that was the society that i grew into at that time. and when i went on trial, i went on trial with an all-white jury. now, if that all white jury thought for a second that john artis and i had murdered those people they would have done that a -- but only evidence that even suggested that we had anything to do with such a thing was two convicts who were in the area that night breaking into a factory and robbing the dead bodies at this bar and grill and this one person who was supposed to be the lookout ran out of cigarettes and walked to the bar and grill which is a block away and as he was walking up to this bar and grill, he said that he saw me and john artis coming around the corner laughing, me carrying a shotgun and john artis ca
and in america where all the major cities in this country was on fire. when african-americans or black people was standing up against the institutionalized hatred demanding equal justice, equal opportunity, equal rights, equal jobs, equal housing and all of those things -- and equal respect, you know, that was -- that was -- that was the society that i grew into at that time. and when i went on trial, i went on trial with an all-white jury. now, if that all white jury thought for a second that...
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usually god bless you and god bless america. and that is as i said pretty obvious because every president it seems closes, not president but politician closes a major address in that fashion. it turns out also that freezing, that signature closing mind now as presidential speeches accretion of the ronald reagan presidency as well. in fact that had been used one time prior to ronald reagan taking office in any major presidential address that happened to be richard nixon after he was closing the address during the watergate situation. [laughter] and this is here. perhaps they sought after that one of use avoided. but none the less ronald reagan does bring it back and by the end of his presidency he's using it to close every speech, every major speech and george h. w. bush as the same, clinton does the same. the most recent president bush as well and then obama picks up and does the same thing. the reason this is somewhat interesting and not as obvious as it seems is barack obama came to this language a little bit later. during the
usually god bless you and god bless america. and that is as i said pretty obvious because every president it seems closes, not president but politician closes a major address in that fashion. it turns out also that freezing, that signature closing mind now as presidential speeches accretion of the ronald reagan presidency as well. in fact that had been used one time prior to ronald reagan taking office in any major presidential address that happened to be richard nixon after he was closing the...
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do you want to know why jobs are getting out-sourced from america. look no further than this figure. 35%. $3.8 million. that's our next number. that's the i.r.s.'s estimate of the number of words in the tax code. how many of you are busy filling out your tax forms right now? this is something i know something about. when we call the i.r.s., they couldn't even give us an actual number of words in the tax code. and you are liable under penalty of perjury and under jail time to get this right. $3.8 trillion. happy reading. i hope you are enjoying it. april 15th is coming. let's look at another number. $1.2 trillion. that's the estimate that we spend in this country for compliance with regulations. i consider the regulatory burden in this country one more tax on the job create -- creators of this nation. now the number one figure. this administration has issued one permit zshzpactly one permit to drill for energy since barack obama came into office. as soon as he came into office he instructed ken salazar to cancel 77 permits that had already been issued
do you want to know why jobs are getting out-sourced from america. look no further than this figure. 35%. $3.8 million. that's our next number. that's the i.r.s.'s estimate of the number of words in the tax code. how many of you are busy filling out your tax forms right now? this is something i know something about. when we call the i.r.s., they couldn't even give us an actual number of words in the tax code. and you are liable under penalty of perjury and under jail time to get this right....
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obama, sobre amÉrica latina y la importancia de este viaje. >>es una oportunidad de seguir profundizando nuestras relaciones en las amÉricas. el presidente va a brasil, chile, el salvador; tres paÍses muy importantes para nosotros en la regiÓn, tres paÍses que son socios en temas bilaterales, hemisfÉricos y globales. esto le da otra oportunidad al presidente de trabajar los temas, retos y oportunidades compartidas que tenemos en las amÉricas con paÍses, con nuevos lÍderes que estÁn enfocados en los problema de hoy y no en las divisiones de ayer. esta es otra oportunidad de avanzar. >>vamos a brindarles otra perspectiva de viaje del pres. barack obama a tres paÍses latinoamericanos prÓximamente. estÁ con nosotros mike gonzalez. vicepresidente de comunicaciones de la fundaciÓn conservadora heritage. gusto en verte. ¿cÓmo estÁs? >>encantado de verte a ti, josÉ. >>hablemos de los tres paÍses y de lo que te gustarÍa que ocurriera en esta visita. brasil. >>es el primer encuentro entre barack obama y la nueva presidenta de brasil;
obama, sobre amÉrica latina y la importancia de este viaje. >>es una oportunidad de seguir profundizando nuestras relaciones en las amÉricas. el presidente va a brasil, chile, el salvador; tres paÍses muy importantes para nosotros en la regiÓn, tres paÍses que son socios en temas bilaterales, hemisfÉricos y globales. esto le da otra oportunidad al presidente de trabajar los temas, retos y oportunidades compartidas que tenemos en las amÉricas con paÍses, con nuevos lÍderes que...